POMONA―Sip a bottomless tea cup of herbal goodness. Hevelynn Nealy, plant ambassador, introduces the health benefits of select herbs while sharing herbal teas with community members. Participants in the workshop will also recreate the beauty of plants indigenous to California through painting on canvas. This event celebrates native plants and traditional plant knowledge, while connecting participants to health and wellness.

SANTA ANA–Join Imagining Santa Ana and El Sol Academy for a Water Color Workshop with Adriana Yazmin Martinez inspired by the artwork of Santa Ana Chicano Art Master, Manuel Hernández Trujillo (1934-2018). All levels and abilities are welcome at this free, family friendly event. Art created during this workshop will be exhibited during the November 9, 2019 Dancing With The Sun Festival.

]]>LA JOLLA—Film Screening: MINDING THE GAPhttps://calhum.org/event/la-jolla-minding-the-gap/
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:00:00 +0000https://calhum.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=10573As part of its Community, Arts and Resistance and Challenging Conversations series, the UC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities invites you to a special documentary film screening and discussion about race, mental health and community.

MINDING THE GAP, a film by Bing Liu, follows three young men who bond across racial lines to escape volatile families in their hometown. Ten years later, unsettling revelations force them to reckon with their families, and each other. The film won the US Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.

“MINDING THE GAP is an essay that never feels like an essay, an intelligent and compassionate grappling with some of the most painful issues presently haunting the body politics: toxic masculinity and domestic violence, economic depression and a deep, existential despair.” — Justin Chang, the Los Angeles Times

Following the event will be a discussion with Keire Johnson, one of the men featured in the documentary.

The evening is organized in part with Pacific Arts Movement, which presents Asian and Asian American Pacific Islander media arts to San Diego residents and visitors in order to inspire, entertain, and support a more compassionate society.

UC San Diego is ADA accessible. Information on parking at can be found at Transportation Services. In addition to pay-to-park options, organizers highly encourage public transportation, car-pools or ride-share.

POMONA―Visit the Pomona Valley Certified Farmers Market on Saturday, October 5th to learn about the newly launched Seed Lending Library. Get free seeds for your home garden! Enjoy free coffee, tea, and good company.

SAN FRANCISCO—Join Rooted Recipes Project x Collective // Memories for a community meal and participatory learning event in collaboration with Hummingbird Farm and Poder. Through cooking, storytelling, and interactive stations, participants will help create a meal while learning how collective Asian American and cross-cultural histories have shaped current social movements and can inform work towards justice for all.

Full schedule: https://rootedrecipesproject.weebly.com/collectivememories.html

June 9, 2019, 1–4 pm

Hummingbird Farm
1669 Geneva Ave
San Francisco, CA 94112

Tickets are on a sliding scale of $20-45. To purchase visit https://rootedrecipesproject.brownpapertickets.com/

RP would like to offer a $15 community discount for students, teachers/educators, and anyone who wouldn’t be able to accommodate regular pricing. For the discount code, please email rootedrecipesproject@gmail.com.

Rooted Recipes Project is a collective founded by Kim Boral, Joseph Nontanovan, Aileen Suzara, and Thuy Tran, all work within the food and are activists, artists, and organizers. It is our connection through food and shared stories that we may reclaim our past in order to move towards a liberated future. Questions? Write to Kim Boral at kg.boral@gmail.com.

LOS ANGELES—When we mention “capacity,” lots of things come to mind. One way to think about capacity is how individual assets such as time, skills, and health are leveraged towards public organizations, actions, and needs. Broadening capacity and reconnecting our assets is not always an easy conversation to have. Who gets the say on what to do and how? Who has the power to act? What has been done and does it work now? What do we do and who do we work with if it doesn’t? Come join Visual Communications and WAPOW for an intimate seminar about stakeholdership, community change and regenerational action.

Saturday, May 11, 2019, 2 pm

341 E 1st StreetLos Angeles, CA 90012

Presented by Visual Communications, CENTERING THE MASSES is a series of free pop-up events and programs at 341 FSN, in the heart of Los Angeles Little Tokyo’s historic district. This nine-week series running from April 5th to May 30, 2019 will bring together artists, cultural workers, entertainment professionals, and civic personalities to celebrate and explore all the ways that motion pictures and media artworks impact our lives. Through intimate conversation, screenings, and visual art presentations, this project will be a space to address the current realities of a community that sits at the crossroads of shifting racial, generational, and economic conditions.

]]>The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Issues Call for Proposals to Community-based Archiveshttps://calhum.org/the-andrew-w-mellon-foundation-issues-call-for-proposals-to-community-based-archives/
Wed, 01 May 2019 18:47:45 +0000https://calhum.org/?p=9636The Mellon Foundation announced their public call for proposals to community-based archives. They seek proposals from community-based archives in the US and its territories “that represent and serve communities marginalized due to oppression based on race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, class, sexuality, religion, ability, and/or geographic location.” Community-based archives that apply must demonstrate that community members are active participants in their archival processes and make key decisions about what to collect and how.

Instructions for applying, including additional requirements for eligibility such as nonprofit status and the amount of the annual operating budget, are outlined in the CFP. Awards would range from $25,000 to $100,000 for up to two years. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2019, with application decisions to follow roughly a month later.

SAN DIEGO—California LGBT Arts Alliance, in partnership with San Diego Unified School District’sLGBTQIA+ Education and Advocacy Department, will host a free community film screening and panel discussion of the independent documentary “Raising Zoey” on Friday, April 26, 2019 at San Diego Central Library in the City of San Diego. The all-ages, family-friendly, and bilingual event will feature a screening of the documentary, a light reception, and panel discussion on family LGBTQIA+ acceptance within the Latinx community with Zoey Luna, her mother, Ofelia Barba and the director of the documentary, Dante Alencastre.

Released in 2016 and featured at landmark festivals such as Outfest in Los Angeles and the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival, “Raising Zoey” follows the story of 13 year-old trans activist Zoey Luna who wants nothing more than to simply go to school, learn, have fun with her friends in Downey, CA. Unfortunately, ignorance and intolerance have not always made this easy. With the help of her mother Ofelia, her older sister Leticia and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Zoey fought school officials for her right to self-identify in school. Even in the face of bullying and endless teasing from both school officials and students, Zoey determinedly continues to live her life as she is and tells her story in the hopes of helping others persevere in living their authentic lives.